Yield

 Recently added to Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2024 site under October 10: 

Alison Field, 58, American epidemiologist

Alison Ellen Field (August 8, 1966 – October 10, 2024)

My ex husband’s name is Allison and he was born on August 8th as well.  The surname Field is an addition to the “Change a Letter Makes a Word” pattern cluster, and so making “yield”.  Note the etymology: 

Old English gieldan (West Saxon), geldan (Anglian) "to pay, pay for; reward, render; worship, serve, sacrifice to"

Of course today it also means “to concede or give way to”.   My ex,… and my son and his family live in the Valley… a pretty big field that will give way to and become much smaller,… if not disappear entirely  given the isostatic adjustment